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An elderly woman in a senior living community spends most of her time alone. As she waits for her daughters to visit, she quells her loneliness by having dinner with her neighbor.

A middle-aged woman looks forward to growing old because she believes older people are less beholden to other's expectations, but her friend disagrees.

A man thinks about his relationship with his parents (especially his mother) as he watches them grow old. He then realizes that he is now old too.

When a friendly resident at a retirement home starts to decline in health and popularity, a woman reflects on what it means to grow old when there’s no one to look out for you.

An elderly woman spends twenty years of her life in paranoia and depression after the death of her husband, only to gain sudden, supreme clarity after a small incident at the end of her life.

A lonely man in his forties imagines a domestic life with a woman he briefly met who is interested in his furniture, but not his marriage proposal.

A man reflects on the loneliness of his childhood home, where his family would fervently clean the house every Saturday for guests on Sunday who would never show.

A depressed old woman tries her best to care for a great-grandchild who unexpectedly enters her life, but he ignores all of her shows of affection and does not say a word back for months.

An old man becomes aware of the finality of his life, and that he couldn't find much meaning to it anymore.

An elderly woman in a suburban town visits an old neighbor at a nursing home. What could have been a cordial, quiet day becomes tainted with the subtle melancholia of growing old and seeing the world change irreparably around oneself.